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Serial bombings rock Assam, 5 killed-India-The Times of India
Serial bombings rock Assam, 5 killed
GUWAHATI: Five people were killed and over 50 injured in three blasts set off by insurgent outfit ULFA in Guwahati on Thursday hours before Union home minister P Chidambaram’s visit to review law and order situation in the state rocked by deadly blasts that left 88 dead two months ago.
Three people were killed and 35 injured, including four women, when a bomb planted in front of a closed sweet shop exploded near upmarket Bhangagarh flyover on the busy Guwahati-Shillong road at around 5:45 pm.
Two persons died on way to hospital while another succumbed to his injuries at the Guwahati Medical College Hospital, DGP G M Srivastava said.
Two of the dead were identified as Amal Das and Kahil Sheikh.
A bomb kept in a bicycle exploded at a market in the Bhootnath area, the route which Chidambaram was to take on his way from the airport, under Baralumukh police station around 5.30 pm in which two persons were killed and 12 others injured, official sources said.
An Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) kept in a Gauhati Municipal Corporation (GMC) dustbin went off at around 3.30 pm injuring three persons in Birubari Tiniali area.
The blasts came a day ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s arrival here on Friday enroute Shillong to inaugurate the Indian Science Congress there on January 3.
Chidmabaram arrived at the Lokopriyo Gopinath Bordoloi international airport on a two-day visit to the state to review Assam’s law and order situation and attend a meeting of the Unified Command headed by chief minister Tarun Gogoi.
The DGP said it was ULFA which carried out the blasts, at least one of them. “We know who were behind the blast but we won’t divulge the names at this stage,” he said.
Srivastava said the police had intelligence inputs that ULFA would carry out blasts as the group usually indulged in such activities either on December 31 or January one and specially when union ministers were in the city.
He said that of the three blasts two were of low intensity and the one at Bhootnath was serious.
He said kerosene was found in a stove which burst near the sweet shop during the explosion, which set off fire but there was no casualty.
